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Zooming into Uranus, the James Webb Space Telescope revealed its ring structure in fine detail - see https://phys.org/news/2023-04-webb-world-image-uranus.html ... Uranus has 13 rings - and

During a talk at an archaeological society meeting I heard mention of St Bartholomew and a 'flaying knife' - or had my imagination run wild

Human activities throw a lot of pollutants into the air, and they find their way into the atmosphere. However, they do not seem to aggregate

William sent in the link to https://www.yahoo.com/news/happen-asteroid-ryugu-hit-earth-120016511.html ... scientists claim to have calculated what would happen if the asteroid Ryugu struck the earth - or

At https://phys.org/news/2023-03-earth-anisotropic-core-driven-dipole.html ... a geomagnetic field is generated in Earth's interior and extends into outer space to protect the Earth from cosmic radiation and the

This interesting research is at https://phys.org/news/2023-03-scientists-uncover-ice-age-shift-pacific.html ... the overturning circulation of the Pacific 'flipped' during the last Ice Age - presumably the Late Glacioal Maximum.

At https://phys.org/news/2023-03-light-bending-gravity-reveals-biggest-black.html ... a team of astronomers claim to have discovered one of the biggest black holes known - taking advantage of gravitational lensing. This

Going back to https://phys.org/news/2023-03-nasa-missions-in-year-gamma-ray.html ... which is derived from https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acc390/pdf ... we further learn they are still looking for the supernova - and plan to

At https://phys.org/news/2023-03-ancient-forests-seaways-climate-lessons.html ... this is an article that is supposed to be a climate lesson for us in the 2st century - aka terrifying global

At https://phys.org/news/2023-03-untold-history-horse-american-plains.html ... an untold story of the horse in the American plains. Horses, it is claimed, first emerged in the Americas - and millions

This is the big story of late March - 3 published articles on a 2022 [October 9th] pulse of intense radiation that swept across the

At https://phys.org/news/2023-03-photosynthesis-hack-ways-generating-renewable.html ... researchers, it is claimed, have hacked the early stages of photosynthesis, and they say they have discovered new ways to extract energy

At https://phys.org/news/2023-03-rna-molecule-uracil-asteroid-ryugu.html ... after analysis of samples collected from the asteroid Ryugu, via Japanese spacecraft Hayabasa2, researchers say they have found uracil - one of

At https://phys.org/news/2023-03-simple-explanation-oumuamua-weird-orbit.html ... a surprisingly simple explanation for Oumuamua's weird orbit. It was accelerating away from the sun in a way that astronomers could not

This one appears, on the face of it, to be fighting a battle that has long been put to bed by mainstream - the Stonehenge

At https://phys.org/news/2023-03-large-asteroid-chance.html ... a big space rock will pass between the orbits of the earth and the moon  this weekend. It will be just 100,000

At https://www.yahoo.com/news/earth-knocked-off-axis-over-194130839.html ... since 1980 earth's poles have drifted by about 13 feet. Not a great deal then - unless you believe the position of

Gary  sent in the link to https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11862699/ ... Venus is volcanically active we are told - scientists have found strong evidence to say so. Perhaps.

At https://phys.org/news/2023-03-giant-ant-fossil-ancient-arctic.html ... ants the size  of small songbirds - another find. Fossils of giant ants are known from Europe and other places. Big ants

William sent in a link to a National Geographical article in volume 243 No 2, March of 2023. Nadia Drake, 'Saturn: what put the rings